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- You're going to go to lunch now?

- I can't. I got a class next period.

- I think I better eat now.

I've got to go to the library and study for my history test.

- OK, I'll see you later then.

- OK.

[music playing]

Who's that? - I don't know.

I've never seen her before.

- She must be new here.

We couldn't have missed her.

- I was just thinking the same thing.

- Well, I'll see you.

- OK.

- I thought you had a class.

- I do, an English class.

And I thought you were going to lunch.

- I am.

I'll see you.

- OK.

Well, it looks like we both missed her.

- Yeah.

- I thought you were going to lunch.

- You really didn't think I was, did you?

- Well, I kind of hoped you were.

I wonder where she went.

- I don't know.

And I probably wouldn't tell you if I did.

- Well, I must say you're honest.

- At least for the time being.

- Well, since we're both obviously interested in this

girl, shall we keep the competition on a sportsman-like

basis? - You mean no holds barred?

Anything goes, don't you?

- Yeah, something like that.

- OK.

[bell]

- Holy smokes. - What's the matter?

- I'm going the wrong way!

- Pardon me.

- Hey, Bruce.

- Oh, hi, Dave.

- Who was that? - Who?

- The girl.

The girl who just left.

- Well, I don't know.

- What do you mean you don't know?

You were talking to her. - No, I wasn't.

She just came up and put something on the bulletin board

and said, "Pardon me," and walked away.

- And you didn't get her name?

- Well, of course not.

- What did she put on the board?

- Well, I don't know.

- What do you mean you don't know?

You were standing right here.

- Well, yeah, but I wasn't watching her.

- Oh.

I wonder which one it is.

- You've got me.

"For good haircuts, ask for Joe at the Beta House."

- How about this one?

"Jackie, please call me.

The blonde you saw me with was my sister.

Signed, Misunderstood."

- "Fright wigs for sale.

See Joe at the Beta House."

Oh, here it is.

"Wanted: a set of dance drums."

- Drums?

Are you kidding?

- No, look, it's signed Betty Hamilton.

That's her name.

- I thought you said you didn't know her name.

- Well, I don't, but I remember I heard one of the other girls

call her Betty.

- Betty, huh?

"Wanted: set of dance drums.

Contact Betty Hamilton."

What would a girl want with a set of dance drums?

- Well, I don't know.

Maybe she's a lady drummer.

- Hey, we've got an old set of dance drums at home.

- You mean Rick's?

- Well, yeah, I believe they were his originally.

But you know how it is with musical instruments.

They sort of belong to the whole family.

- I don't quite understand what you mean.

- Well, what I mean is, this has to be handled carefully.

- You mean so Rick doesn't find out?

- No, not exactly.

I mean, he'll find out about it eventually.

And I'll straighten everything out with him, naturally.

- In other words, he can have the money,

but you want the girl.

- That's the general idea.

Say, where did you say you were going?

- Over to the mall shop.

- That's what I figured.

Maybe I better go over there with you

and pick up your check.

- Fine, if you insist.

- I need the phone number.

- Naturally.

- Hey, what are you doing?

- Oh, I was just trying to make some more room in the closet.

- What are you doing with my drums?

- Well, I was going to talk to you about that.

You don't use 'em very much anymore, do you?

- Well, no, not very much. Why?

- Well, I thought you might like to sell them.

- Sell them?

- What's going on, fellas?

- Rick's just decided to sell his drums.

- Now wait a sec.

- When did you decide this?

- Well, I didn't.

- It's a good idea, though, don't you think, Pop?

He never uses 'em anymore.

- Gee, I don't know.

It's an awfully good set of drums.

If they're in the way, why don't you

just put 'em up in the attic?

- Well, I don't get this.

Why are you so anxious to have me sell my drums?

- Well, I just thought it would be a good idea.

You could use a little extra money, couldn't you?

- Well, now that you mention it, I probably could, especially

if I'm going to start dating this new girl

we saw this morning.

- Well, did you meet her?

- No, not yet.

- Who's this?

- A girl he hasn't met yet.

- You know, the more I think about it,

David might have a good idea.

Now, I ought to get a pretty good price for these.

What do you think, Pop?

- Gee, I don't know, Rick.

After all, it's your drums.

I'd think it over, though, if I were you.

- What do you say?

- Gee, I don't know.

[playing drums]

- Uh, Rick?

Rick?

Rick?

You know, I think maybe David's right.

Why don't you sell them?

- Oh, say, those look wonderful, Rick.

- Yeah, they do, don't they?

Maybe I won't sell them after all.

- What do you mean you won't sell them?

- Why are you so concerned about this anyway?

- Well, I just thought you wanted

to make a little extra money.

- Don't you want to sell them, Rick?

- Well, yeah, I guess so.

I wonder if I should put an ad in the paper.

- Oh, I don't think you have to go to all that trouble.

Why don't we just ask around the fraternity and on the campus?

- Well, you boys can talk about this later.

Dinner's all ready, OK? - OK, Mom.

- OK.

- Hello, may I speak to Betty Hamilton, please?

Thank you.

- Hello? - Hello?

- Hello, who's this?

- Is that you, Ricky?

- Yeah, get off the phone, will you, David?

I want to make a call. - Well, I'm using it.

Get off yourself. - Hello?

- David?

- No, I'm sorry.

You must have the wrong number.

- Great.

- Well, who was that? - Well, you heard her.

It was the wrong number.

- Look, if you're all finished fooling around,

do you mind if I use the phone? - Go ahead.

Help yourself.

- Hi, Dave. - Oh, hi, Bruce.

- Hey, how'd the deal with the drums come out?

- Oh, pretty good so far.

I phoned her last night, and she's going to meet me here.

In fact, she's due any minute now.

- Oh, good luck.

You told Rick about it, huh?

- Well, no, of course not.

And don't you tell him either.

It'll spoil everything. - He's going to find out anyway.

Here he comes.

Say, if you need somebody to head him off, I'm available.

- Of course I do. Hurry up.

She'll be here any minute.

- Oh, by the way, I'm a little hungry.

I haven't had any lunch yet.

- OK, meet you at the cafeteria.

- Now you're talking.

Any time you want me, I'm available,

especially if you're willing to buy my lunch.

- Well, who wants you?

- What are you, some kind of a nut or something?

- Hurry up, will you, Bruce?

- OK, OK.

- Dave?

- Oh. Hi.

You're Betty, aren't you? - Yes.

- I'm Dave Nelson.

- Yes, I thought so.

- Well, as I told you on the phone,

the drums are in perfect condition.

And I'm sure we can get together on the price.

If you don't mind my saying so, you

don't look like you'd be a drummer.

- Oh, I'm not.

The drums are for my little brother, Richard.

- Oh.

How long has he been playing?

- Oh, he's just starting.

In fact, I was kind of hoping he could take a few lessons.

Perhaps you might be willing to help him a little.

- Oh.

Yeah, it is possible that could be arranged.

When would you like to see the drums?

- Well, as soon as possible.

He's pretty excited about the idea.

- Oh, I can understand that.

I remember how excited my brother was when he got them.

- Oh, the drums belong to your brother?

- Yeah, my younger brother.

- Oh.

Well, where are they now?

- They're at our house.

- Well, why don't we stop by tonight

and take a look at them?

- Oh, well-- well, I wouldn't want you to go to all that

trouble.

I'll bring them over to your house.

- Oh, don't be silly.

After all, it's a lot easier to move my little brother.

Will 8 o'clock be all right?

- Yeah, that'll be fine.

- Good.

I guess we could have settled all this

over the phone last night.

- Yeah, I guess we could have at that.

Except I always feel it's better to do business in person,

especially after I heard your voice.

- Well, thank you.

- I'll explain how to get there.

Do you have a pencil?

- I think so.

- Is Rick home yet? - Yeah, he's out in the kitchen.

- Oh, good. - Hey!

I'm home, too.

- Sorry, Mom.

Hey, Rick?

- I'm in the kitchen.

- I got great news for you.

- Well, I've got great news for you, too.

I sold my drums.

- What'd you say?

- I said I sold my drums to Wally.

- What'd you do that for?

- What are you talking about?

It was your idea.

- Well, it wasn't my idea to sell them to Wally.

I've got a buyer for 'em.

- Well, I appreciate your interest,

but I sold them to Wally about a half an hour ago.

- Well, can't you get them back?

- What for?

The idea was to sell them, and I sold them.

- Well, this was a little kid, a little boy who

was all excited about the idea.

This will break his heart.

- Look, gee, I'm sorry, but what am I going to do about it?

- Look, if I can get them back from Wally

and then sell them to this little kid,

is that all right with you?

- Well, sure, I don't care, but it seems

like an awful lot of trouble.

- Well, I just hate to disappoint a little kid

like that.

Tell Mom I'll be back as soon as I can.

- Well, OK.

- What did David go out again for?

- He went over to see Wally at the fraternity.

He's going to try and get the drums back and sell them

to some little kid.

- Oh?

- You know, maybe I don't appreciate David enough.

He's got some wonderful qualities.

Oh, this is ridiculous.

- What are you mumbling about? - David.

He's got something up his sleeve,

and I can't figure out what it is.

[playing drums]

- Hey, what are you doing?

- Trying to reestablish a little peace

and quiet, if you don't mind. - Well, what's the matter?

Don't you guys appreciate music?

- Hey, if you don't know, this was

supposed to be a study hour.

- Well, I'm studying drums.

- Well, study 'em someplace else.

- Yeah, like about 10 miles from here.

- Oh, I'm just getting warmed up.

Wait 'till I get the feel of these things.

[playing drums]

- Hi, Dave. - Hi, Dink.

- Is Wally here?

- What do you think?

- Oh, Dave Nelson.

Let's have a big fanfare for Dave Nelson.

Da, da, da, da, da, da.

[playing drums]

How about that?

- I can't tell you what it does to me.

- Oh, thank you. Would you believe it?

I haven't even had a lesson yet.

- Look, Wally, I know you just got the drums,

and I can see you're really enjoying them,

but I was wondering if you'd be willing to sell them back.

I may even give you a small profit.

[applause] - What?

You want my drums?

- On behalf of Wally, we accept.

- Where do you want them, Dink?

- Just put them in my car.

- Hey, put that down!

Come back here!

Hey, wait a minute.

I do not accept the offer.

I demand that you bring these back here.

- Actually, it was easy.

All the guys were in favor of it anyway.

- Yeah, it seems like kind of a dirty trick

to play on poor Wally.

- Are you kidding, Pop?

I probably saved his life.

- Well, what are you going to do with the drums now?

- Well, I got a customer I can sell 'em to.

- Either that, or he's bought himself a set of drums.

- Don't worry.

I'll sell 'em.

Hey, there's a good movie down at the Bijou tonight.

- Yeah, I know. - Are you going?

- No, I saw it last week.

- Oh.

- We're going down to the Rivoli, though.

Do you want to come along?

- Oh, what time does it start?

- About a quarter of 8:00.

- Oh, good.

- Are you coming? - Well, no, thanks.

I've got a few things to do.

- Say, there's another piece of cake

up there if anybody wants it.

- Not me, thanks.

- No, thanks, Mom.

- Well, I might as well finish it off.

- Well, leave it to Ricky.

- What are you talking about?

You don't do so bad yourself.

[phone rings]

- I'll get it.

- Pop, don't let David steal my cake.

- OK. - Are you kidding?

Pop's the one you got to watch.

- Hello?

- Hello, is Dave there?

- Yeah, just a second.

- Who is it, Rick?

- It's a girl with a very sexy voice, if you'll

pardon the expression.

- Oh.

- Oh, it's for David.

- Darn it!

- Well, you can't win 'em all, Dad.

- Do you mind?

- No, not at all.

- Hello? - Hi, Dave.

This is Betty.

- Oh, uh, hi.

- Hi.

Would it be inconvenient if Richard and I came

over a little early tonight?

- Oh, no, not at all.

- Oh, fine.

He's got a lot of homework, and he won't do anything

until he sees those drums.

- Oh, sure, I understand.

- Oh, good.

Well, we'll be over in about a half an hour then.

- OK, bye.

- Anything wrong, Dave?

- No, no.

- Oh.

You look a little worried.

- Well, I was just worried that Rick wouldn't get down

to the movies in time.

- Well, I've got plenty of time.

- Oh, you better leave early enough to get a good seat.

- I haven't even finished my cake.

- Oh.

Hey, do you mind if I have a little bite?

- Oh, I thought you said you didn't want any.

- Well, I didn't think so, but it looks so good.

- Hey!

- Hey, Rick.

You're going to spend the whole night in the shower?

- Hey!

What happened to the hot water?

- You sure you don't want to go?

- Oh, no thanks.

- Well, good night.

- Good night.

What's the matter now?

- I wonder if I should have shaved.

- Just to go to a movie?

- Well, I may stop off at the mall shop later.

- Well, you look fine.

- Well, good night. - Good night.

- Good night, Pop.

- Good night, Rick.

[door bell]

I'll get it.

Good evening.

- Hello, we came to see about the drums.

- Oh, yes, come on in.

- Thank you.

- Uh, Rick! - He just left, Pop.

I can handle it. - Well, maybe I can catch him.

Oh, that's OK. Thanks anyway.

Hi, Betty. - Hi, Dave.

This is Richard. - Hi.

- Hi, Richard. This is my father.

This is Betty Hamilton. - How do you do?

- How do you do? - And her brother, Richard.

- Hi. - Hi, Richard.

- Richard's interested in buying the drums.

- Oh, good.

You're just about the same age Rick was

when he started playing drums.

- They're right in here. - OK.

Nice to have met you, Mr. Nelson.

- Thank you.

Same to you.

- Who is that?

- Oh, that's the little boy who's

interested in buying Rick's drums.

His very attractive sister is with him.

- Oh.

- I'm beginning to understand why

Dave was so anxious to get Rick out of the house.

[playing drums]

- All right.

Now, you're sure these are what you want?

- Yeah, these are great.

- I guess that settles it.

- They're really in awfully good condition.

- Deal's already been closed, Pop.

- Why don't you help them take the drums out to the car?

- OK, here we go.

- I'll get the door.

- Now, be careful with those, Mr. Nelson.

- OK.

- Well, I'm sure glad this worked out so well.

- Oh, so am I.

- I was thinking, this might call for a little celebration.

How'd you like to go to the movies with me tomorrow night?

- Oh, I'd love to.

- Good.

In fact, it'll give you a chance to get out of the house

while Richard's practicing.

- You aren't kidding.

Say, you mentioned something about giving him some lessons?

- Yes, I did, didn't I?

Well, I'll be glad to show him what I can.

- If you're talking about drum lessons,

why don't you get Rick to help him?

- Oh, well, yeah.

- Well, that's your younger brother, isn't it?

- Yes, it is.

- Well, do you think he'd do it?

- Oh, I'm sure he would.

- Oh, well, do you think maybe he

could come over tomorrow night?

- Well, I guess I could ask him.

- Well, what time will you be coming over, Dave?

- Oh, uh, about 7:30.

- Well, say, why don't you and your brother come on

over together?

- Well, we can work that out.

I better get the rest of the stuff out to the car.

- Here, I'll help you, Dave.

- Thanks, Pop.

- Here, let me take that for you, Mrs. Nelson.

- Thank you. Good night.

- Good night.

It was awfully nice to have met you.

- Thank you.

I have a feeling I said something wrong.

- It's possible.

- I have another feeling.

Let's just stay out of the whole thing.

- Would you like to carry the bass drum out?

- No, thank you. You go ahead.

- What do you mean, drum lessons?

- I meant to mention it to you last night.

It kind of goes with the deal.

- When I sold Wally the drums, I didn't

have to give him any lessons.

- Well, I figured you'd feel that way about it.

We might as well forget it.

- Well, I kind of hate to disappoint the kid.

- No, don't worry about it.

At least I can show him how to hold the sticks.

- Oh, that's OK. I'll go over there with you.

- No, that won't be necessary.

- I know, but I'm beginning to suspect this kid has

a good-looking sister.

What time should I be over there?

About 7:30?

- Well, no, why don't you make it about 8:00?

That should work out a little better.

- Are you sure you don't want to wait

and make sure your brother gets here all right?

- Oh, no, that's OK.

I think he'd find his way.

Besides, we don't want to be late for the show.

- Well, I thought it didn't start till 8:15.

- Well, it doesn't, but I thought

we could leave a little early so I don't have to drive so fast.

Besides, the traffic's pretty bad this time of night.

[playing drums]

- Here you go. Why don't you try it?

- OK.

[playing drums]

- Yeah, that's darn good.

- Can you play the piano?

- Well, a little bit.

- Why don't you play something and I'll play the drums?

- OK.

Oh, whose pictures are those?

- Oh, my sister's.

Well, come on, Rick.

- OK.

[playing piano]

- Oh, good evening.

- Oh, hi.

- Come back here, David.

- I suppose you'd like an explanation.

- Aren't you a little ashamed of yourself, playing a dirty trick

like this on your own brother?

- Now, just a second.

We had an agreement, no holds barred.

However, I guess I can understand

if you're a little mad at me.

- It's a shame to let you off the hook,

but through no fault of yours, I'm not mad at all.

- You're not?

- Well, if you hadn't been so busy working out

your complicated scheme, you would have realized

a girl can have a twin sister.

- You're kidding.

- No, look at this.

- Hey, how about that?

Identical twins, one for each of us.

- I think I'll go over and get myself a date tomorrow night.

- Oh, Betty said she might be studying.

Maybe I'll drop over, too.

- Yeah, why don't you?

We'll have a few laughs.

- Now, remember, you got a date with this one.

- Yeah, OK.

- Oh, hi, Dave. - Oh, hi, Richard.

- Come on in.

- Oh, thanks.

How are you coming along on the drums?

- Fine, thanks.

- Oh, that's good.

- Want to hear me play something?

- Maybe later.

Is your sister here?

- No, she went out with Rick.

- No, I mean Betty.

- Well, yeah, she went out with Rick.

- Well, I thought he went out with your other sister.

- What other sister?

- Wait a second.

Doesn't Betty have a twin sister?

- Oh, no.

Those are both pictures of Betty.

She just has her hair done different.

She changes it all the time.

In fact, she changed it back tonight.

And she's worn it like this.

- Did she say why?

- She said Rick asked her to, something about a technicality.

Hey, can you play the piano?

- Hmm, yeah, sort of.

- Well, come on.

Let's kick up a storm here, man!

Let's have a ball.

Come on, Dave.

- Oh, OK.

[playing drums]

[playing piano]

[MUSIC - RICKY NELSON, "HELLO MARY LOU"]

- [SINGING] Hello, Mary Lou.

Goodbye, heart.

Sweet Mary Lou, I'm so in love with you.

I knew, Mary Lou, we'd never part.

So hello, Mary Lou.

Goodbye, heart.

You passed me by one sunny day, flashed those big brown eyes

my way.

And, ooh, I wanted you forever more.

Now, I'm not one that gets around.

I swear my feet stuck to the ground.

And though I never did meet you before,

I said, hello, Mary Lou.

Goodbye, heart.

Sweet Mary Lou, I'm so in love with you.

I knew, Mary Lou, we'd never part.

So hello, Mary Lou.

Goodbye, heart.

I saw your lips, I heard your voice.

Believe me, I just had no choice.

Wild horses couldn't make me stay away.

I thought about a moonlit night, arms around you good and tight.

It's all I had to see for me to say, hey-hey, hello, Mary Lou.

Goodbye, heart.

Sweet Mary Lou, I'm so in love with you.

I knew, Mary Lou, we'd never part.

So hello, Mary Lou.

Goodbye, heart.

So hello, Mary Lou.

Goodbye, heart.

Yes, hello, Mary Lou.

Goodbye, heart.

[applause]

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